Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 70A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
- 878Louis the Stammerer was crowned as King of West Francia by Pope John VIII.
- 1159Pope Alexander III chosen.
- 1191Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
- 1228Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1303Guillaume de Nogaret takes Pope Boniface VIII prisoner on behalf of Philip IV of France.
- 1571Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
- Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
- Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
- War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from North Italy.
- Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
- American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France’s involvement in the war.
- French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
- Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
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- Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
- Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.
- Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
- American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
- Emilio Castelar y Ripoll becomes President of the First Spanish Republic.
- In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
- The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
- The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
- The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
- Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
- Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
- French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
- US federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
- Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
